Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whitman took his readers on a mouthwatering tour of the Grand Street market: "What an array of rich, red sirloins, luscious steaks, delicate and tender joints . . ." At Hudson & Ottingnon's gym, he found a sweaty figure "laboring up a smooth pole with all the eagerness of a man struggling for life," and commended the practice to dyspeptic readers. At a temperance meeting, he noted with amusement a sign reading BEWARE THE FIRST GLASS.** Whitman, a nondenominational Christian, told how he explained the Crucifixion, by signs, to a deaf-mute child: "It was very singular . . . that the mind of this...
...week the Juneau had been away, the little (formerly five officers and less than 100 men) U.S. naval base had become headquarters for a U.N. task force. Ringed by soft green mountains, the turquoise harbor was a colorful array of British, Australian and American flags. Little whaleboats and captain's gigs raced madly back & forth hauling the brass on formal calls, which "are well in order," the British said, "since this is really not a war after all." At the officers' club Royal Marines turned out each night in red cummerbunds and dinner jackets. The Americans dressed...
...Yugoslavia (but none of the Soviet satellites) were back for the first time since the war. From the U.S. had come a retrospective showing of 48 paintings by Seascapist John Marin, along with samplings of six younger-and lesser-U.S. artists (TIME, June 12). Surveying that bewildering array, one British critic moaned: "They have collected too much art. Too many impressions are fighting each other...
Next Saturday, the Analyst team, captained by instructor Robert S. Sprague, will face a powerful array of lab assistants and section...
...capitalized on his own popularity, toiled at making friends for Eastern with every after-dinner speech, newspaper interview and casual handshake. He also collected an array of enemies. Organized labor hated him.-for his wartime criticism and his free-enterpriser's independence -almost as bitterly as it hated Senator Robert A. Taft. Its feathers were not smoothed when Rickenbacker reminded them that he had been a working stiff too, and had been glad to get a dollar a day._